With private prisons not cracking down on safety it makes it more dangerous for inmates to be held there. Private prisons confiscated eight times more cell phones than they did in the state facilities. They even had a higher rate of physical assaults. A big problem in any prisons is sexual assault. vox wrote an article “A federal report just confirmed it: for-profit prisons are more dangerous than public ones” is about the danger in private prisons. In this article that can be found at https://www
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long time‚ private prisons have brought a lot of questions to the people in general about wondering if it’s useful and they still exist nowadays. The industry of this type of prisons is considered expensive‚ dangerous and unsuccessful for the prisoners which leads the people to think it’s not worth having those prisons. There is only 11% of the inmates that is allocated in private prisons so approximatively 22‚000 people. The public prisons try to send more prisoners into the private ones because
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In today’s society‚ the topic of private prisons being more effective than federal prisons can often lead to an controversial discussion because not many can agree on which one is most effective. A private prison company named‚ the Correction Corporation of America is one of the largest private companies owning 51 facilities in 16 states (Brian Kincade‚2017). It is believed that one of the biggest contributions of the CCA is the money that it can save the United States in the long run. As reporter
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Just Keep Taxes Low Even though privatizing prisons is considered morally wrong by many people‚ these prisons are supervised by the state‚ have the government’s permission to operate‚ and they exist because public jails cannot handle the number of prisoners. The main reason I support prison privatization is because they reduce taxes. First‚ since they are not part of the government’s property citizens don’t have to pay for them to operate and more money could be used to build other things such as
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in the U.S. This means that we have a large part of our economy due to prisons. We have private clubs such as Alec‚ that works with politicians so they can make more money off of the prison system. (13th) Some companies that are included in this club are those who supply the food to the prisons‚ those who run the prisons medical facilities‚ and even those who work on probation and parole. If we were to let people out of prisons who shouldn’t be in there‚ it would drastically affect these corporations
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Private prisons can be a profitable and secure alternative to government run State prisons‚ but will they actually help rehabilitate criminal when private prisons profit come from the number of prisoners they house? Private prison also known as for-profit prisons are thirty party company’s that are contracted by government who pays a per diem or monthly rate for each prisoner‚ this normally cost less of what it would if it was run by the state. The saving is what the government considerers the most
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Problems with Prisons The Michigan Department of Corrections annual budget is 2 billion dollars‚ and the average annual cost per inmate is $32‚000. 4.5 percent of the state general fund allocated in the 2009-2010 budget proposal. Michigan’s total department active personnel contains 16‚324 people. There are 50‚693 incarcerated under MDOC jurisdiction with a total of 49 facilities that have had 2 escapes. The parole system makes up 17‚435 people. Prison overcrowding is a huge problem
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The private prisons industry is growing quite rapidly‚ and many have questioned their intentions. Those who are against the private prisons say that profit purely drives them and that they will do whatever it takes to make sure they turn a profit each quarter. The first key argument that they mention is in regards to the safety aspect of the private prisons since they tend to hire improperly trained employees. Followed by the dependency problem that could result from having private prisons take over
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effective labor‚ the private prison systems can believe that society will see an increase within the amount of individual inmates who are
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The private prisons industry is growing rapidly‚ in the year 2011‚ companies that were a part of the private prison industry brought in "$1.7 billion: [in] total revenue recorded by CCA" (Lee) and many have questioned the intentions of the companies that own and operate those facilitates. The history of private prisons can be traced "as far back as 1852 when San Quentin was the first for-profit prison in the U.S." (“Private Jails”). Private prisons did not become popular again until the 1980s‚ when
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